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2011 Preconference Proposals

2011-02-07T19:44:27Z

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= Proposals for 2011 Code4LibCon Preconferences =

Proposals will close Friday November 19 so we can finalize the list and add them to registration!

We'll have space for up to 3 full-day pre-conferences and 3-6 half-day pre-conferences.

'''Please include a "Contact/Responsible Individual" name and email address so we know who is willing to put on the proposed precon.'''

==Full Day==

=== CURATEcamp Hackfest ===
* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in digital curation? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3 Access 2010 Hackfest]. I propose a full-day hackfest with a focus on the domains of digital curation, preservation, and repositories -- think stuff like CDL's microservices, Hydra, Fedora, etc. Here's how it works, roughly: we assemble in the morning and do some whiteboarding, mostly to gauge folks' interests and jot down project ideas; then we separate into teams and hack on stuff for the rest of the day and present our progress at the end. Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable! (Participants may begin kicking around [[2011 CURATEcamp Hackfest Ideas]].)
* Duration: full-day
* Speaker Bio: Facilitators of the CURATEcamp Hackfest will be:
** Shaun Ellis - Digital Library Collections Interface Developer, Princeton University Library
** Jason Fowler - Programmer Analyst, UBC Library Systems
* Contact: Mike Giarlo (michael at psu.edu)

==Half Day Morning==

=== What's New In Solr ===
* Description: The library world is fired up about Solr. Practically every next-gen catalog is using it (via Blacklight, VuFind, or other technologies). Solr has continued improving in some dramatic ways, including geospatial support, field collapsing/grouping, extended dismax query parsing, pivot/grid/matrix/tree faceting, autosuggest, and more. This session will cover all of these new features, showcasing live examples of them all, including anything new that is implemented prior to the conference.
* Duration: half-day
* Speaker Bio: Erik has spoken at several code4lib conferences (Keynoted Athens '07 along with the infamous pioneering Solr preconference, presented at Providence '09, and pre-conferenced Asheville '10). Erik co-authored "Lucene in Action", and he's a Lucene and Solr committer. His library world claims to fame are founding and naming Blacklight, original developer on Collex and the Rossetti Archive search.
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidimagination.com)

=== Intro to Functional Programming with JavaScript (and a little Haskell) ===
* [http://www.slideshare.net/willkurt/intro-to-functional-programming-workshop-code4lib Slides]
* [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5373312/Code4libFPfinaldoc.pdf Workbook]

* Description: Functional programming is a topic that is becoming increasingly important for programmers to be aware of. Unfortunately it also has the reputation of being an area of programming that is particularly difficult and academic. Languages like Haskell, while being very powerful, certainly live up to this reputation. However many of the essential features of functional programming can be explored through a language as simple and commonplace as JavaScript.

:This preconference talk will cover what makes a language ‘functional’ and the usage and implementation of essential features of functional programming: first-class functions, lambda functions, higher order functions, closures, and function currying. It will show how many of the powerful abstractions in a language like Haskell can also be implemented in a language like JavaScript, this will include a discussion of the trade offs between purity and performance.

:The aim of this talk is to prepare participants to both implement functional techniques in everyday programming, as well as start exploring the topic more academically. Even if you never plan on coding in a purely functional style this workshop will give you an understanding of topics that should improve your programming in other languages with functional features such as Ruby, Python, and C#. At the very least after this workshop you can go to the bar and throw around words like “lambda function”, “closure” and “currying” with confidence!
* Duration: half-day
* Speaker Bio: Will Kurt is the Applications Development Librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is also working on a master’s in Computer Science. He has spoken at several library conferences including Computers in Libraries and Internet Librarian on topics including the Microsoft Surface and Visualizing Information.
* Contact: Will Kurt (wkurt at unr.edu)

=== Running cloud Servers ===
*Desription: In this pre-conference we will work with the Amazon EC2, S3, and EBS platforms to launch, configure and deploy cloud-based servers. The workshop will include a series of short hands-on tutorials designed to take you from complete novice to semi-skilled cloud server administrator. the tutorials include: 1)short overview of Amazon cloud services and how they are used 2)Amazon registration, 3)Launching, configuring and securing your first instance, 4)Installing a service (Vufind) and 5)Backing up in the cloud - Backup routines and server images.
*Duration: half-day
*Speaker Bio: Erik Mitchell is the Assistant Director for Technology Services at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Over the past year he and his team have focused on using cloud-based services to serve the IT needs of the ZSR library. More information about the work done on this project can be found at [http://zsr.wfu.edu/litacloud], [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2510]
*Contact: mitcheet at wfu dot edu

=== Creating a new JHOVE2 Format Module===

Description: JHOVE2 is a Java framework and application for format-aware characterization of files, byte streams within files, and file containers or other file aggregations. JHOVE2 examines a digital source unit and extracts feature information about that source unit for purposes of classification, analysis, and use.

JHOVE2 is a significant re-engineering of its JHOVE ([http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/ http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/]) predecessor, with a highly modular structure, intended to facilitate the rapid creation of new characterization modules for many formats that can easily be plugged into the JHOVE2 framework. The initial JHOVE2 distribution includes modules for UTF-8, SGML, Shapefile, TIFF, WAV, XML, and ICC color profiles, with ZIP, PDF and JPEG-2000 modules expected to be deployed in the next few months. Developers at the Wegener Institute ([http://www.awi-potsdam.de http://www.awi-potsdam.de] ) have already created new modules for netCDF and GRIB. Developers at the French National Library (La Bibliothèque nationale de France [http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html]) are currently working on GZIP and ARC modules.

This session will provide an overview of the JHOVE2 processing module and plug-in architecture, and will walk through the steps of creating a new format module.

For more information, visit http://jhove2.org.

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Sheila Morrissey is a member of the JHOVE2 development team and is Senior Research Developer at Portico ([http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/ http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/])

Contact: Sheila Morrissey <sheila dot morrissey at ithaka dot org>

==Half Day Afternoon==

=== Using JHOVE2 for Policy Assessment of Files ===

Description: JHOVE2 is a Java framework and application for format-aware characterization of files, bytestreams within files, and file containers or other file aggregatations. JHOVE2 examine a digital source unit and extracts feature information about that source unit for purposes of classification, analysis, and use.

In addition to detailed output of the features of a format instance, JHOVE2 can provide summary determination of the validity of an item (its conformance to the normative syntactic and semantic requirements defined by an authoritative specification) and can be used for assessing the level of acceptability of a digital object for a specific purpose on the basis of locally-defined policy rules. The latter is one of the significant enhancements of JHOVE2 over its predecessor.

This session will provide some examples of the structure of JHOVE2 format modules, the outputs produced by those modules, and the configuration of the JHOVE2 assessment module so that it can be used to perform rule-based analysis of the reportable properties previously generated during characterization of a source unit.

For more information, visit [http://jhove2.org http://jhove2.org].

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Richard Anderson is a member of the JHOVE2 develpment team and a Software Engineer with the Digital Library Systems and Services unit of Stanford University

Contact: Richard Anderson <rnanders at stanford dot edu>

=== Publishing Historic Newspapers with NDNP tools ===

* An in-depth session on publishing and working with historic newspaper content made available through the US National Digital Newspaper Program. The software behind the LC-hosted site at [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ chroniclingamerica.loc.gov] (python/django/mysql/solr) is available under a free/libre/open source license at [http://sourceforge.net/projects/loc-ndnp/ sourceforge]. This session will include an introduction to the program and working with the software; discussion of adding features such as linking between ChromAm at LC and other institutions publishing the same newspaper content; creating structure and submission for user edited OCR corrections; and article level viewing. This event is open to everyone - non-NDNP participants are invited to join us and learn how to work with this content and help consider how to improve the software. The schedule will include ample time for technical discussion and hacking on the software itself.

* Duration: half-day
* Contact: Karen Estlund, University of Oregon Libraries; Dan Chudnov, Library of Congress

=== VIVO Boot Camp===

Description: VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell University. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information and includes options for RDF linked data distribution.

This boot camp will be run by members of the NIH/NCRR funded VIVO network and will focus on four components including, an overview of what VIVO is and how it can help researchers, an installation walk-through, how VIVO works (its ontology, visualization functionality, and user interface), and future directions for the project (e.g. profile data re-use in CMSs such as Drupal and Joomla!, federated search, etc.).

For more information, visit [http://vivoweb.org http://vivoweb.org].

Duration: half-day

Speakers:
*Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College
*Nick Cappadona, Cornell University
*Ying Ding, Indiana University
*Bryan Keese, Indiana University
*Micah Linnemeier, Indiana University
*Ryan Cobine, Indiana University

Contact: Ryan Cobine <rcobine AT indiana DOT edu>

=== Islandora Repository System ===

Description: The Islandora project (islandora.ca) is growing, with new functionality provided by Solr integration and funding to support the growth of this OS project beyond our library borders. Islandora provides integration between Fedora and Drupal, with custom solution packs to address the needs of multiple data types. This session will review the project's development and current features, as well as providing guidance for basic installation and configuration.

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Mark Leggott is the founder of the Islandora project. As the UL for the University of Prince Edward Island, and the projects major architect. He has spoken at a number of conferences, and is the founder of a new SaSS company providing services around Islandora software.

'''Update 1/12''': Paul Pound will co-lead; Kirsta Stapelfeldt will not attend.

Contact: Kirsta Stapelfeldt (kstapelfeldt AT upei.ca)

=== Code4Lib Preconference Unconference===

* Description: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference "Wikipedia entry for unconference"] will give you a good idea what to expect. An "unconference" is "a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose." These unconferences came up from the hacker world (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcamp "BarCamp"]) as a way to avoid high conference fees and sponsored presentations. Unconferences are not spectactor events, nor are they places to "be seen." Participants are involved from the schedule creation to the wrap-up session, and actively present, discuss, and collaborate with fellow participants. In recent years, [http://thatcamp.org/ "THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp)"] has become a popular incarnation of the *camp gathering. In general, check your papers at the door, and just be ready to talk about the work you’re doing, the work you want to do, how you might collaborate with others. Think of it like a conference entirely made up of [[2011_Breakout_Sessions | breakout sessions]], but with some unifying theme. Or not. It depends on you. Now, how will we run an unconference in three hours and in one room? Carefully. I propose a rough schedule of 30 minutes for discussion-of-topics, then three 45-minute bursts of discussions, followed by 15 minutes of wrap-up. As this is all user-generated, it's all up for change in that first 30 minutes. We can have as many concurrent bursts-of-discussion as will fit in the one room, and that would also allow greater flexibility for wandering between groups. This is actually a compressed micro preconference unconference, that should--if all goes according to plan--produce a really fun, interesting, collaborative time, as well as a model that could be taken back to our own workplaces. '''Please''' contact the organizer with questions as well as any ideas for conversations you might want to have; will update this entry accordingly.

* Duration: half-day

* Organizer / Contact: Julie Meloni (jcmeloni AT gmail dot com)

* '''THE SCHEDULE''' Admin/Schedule setting from 1:30-2:00 Session 1 (210-250pm) A: Web Services & Libraries ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PC0vHWCJEA8v8VE0Z_-W-dLPaiYYYwKFDT1JIyCrP9M/edit?hl=en Google Doc]), B: UI/UX Test & Development Session 2 (2:50-3:30) A: Linked Data/Non-MARC Metadata, B: How Do We Work (Well) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sMChUzutBxyhyU9XirKglW75mbFKpaKx5br33F6MvHA/edit?hl=en Google Doc] Session 3 (3:30-4:10) A: Search (Lots of Things), B: Mobile Web/Location-Based Wrap-Up/Sharing (until 4:30).

[[Category:Code4Lib2011]]

C4L2011 social activities

2011-02-07T19:33:47Z

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==Code4Lib 2011 social activities ==

[http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201419377696104618083.000499eeb466dfb962201&ll=39.169964,-86.53008&spn=0.025286,0.03077&z=15 Code4Lib 2011 Google Map] - It's the ultimate plot device! See what others are recommending and recommend your own places to see and things to do!

[http://www.imu.indiana.edu/pdfs/imu/pdfs/IMU%20Map%202011.pdf Map of the Indiana Memorial Union] - The conference is happening [http://www.imu.indiana.edu/event/AlumniHall.mov here], and [http://www.imu.indiana.edu/img/rooms/whittenberger.jpg here], [http://www.imu.indiana.edu/img/rooms/solarium.jpg here], and [http://www.imu.indiana.edu/event/TreeSuitesRoom.mov here]. Use this map and you can probably find it all.

==Local events==

* [https://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence/display/EVENTS/Code4Lib+2011+Proposal Original Proposal (suggests some nearby events)]
* February 4-5, 8-12: [http://www.indiana.edu/~thtr/productions/2010/angelsInAmerica.shtml Angels in America: Part One] at IU Wells-Metz Theatre
* February 5: [http://music.indiana.edu/events/?e=9221 New Music Ensemble] at Auer Hall, 8 p.m, with [http://www.parnasmusic.com/Index.html duo parnas] performing.
* February 6: [http://www.indiana.edu/~iucinema/calendar.shtml Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock] and [http://www.indiana.edu/~iucinema/events2011.21.shtml And Everything is Going Fine] at the new IU Cinema
* February 7: [http://www.indiana.edu/~iucinema/events2011.33.shtml Reign of Terror] at the new IU Cinema
* February 7: [http://music.indiana.edu/events/?e=9224 Jazz Ensemble] at Musical Arts Center, 8 p.m.
* February 7: [https://onestart.iu.edu/ccl-prd/EventMaintenance.do?methodToCall=viewEvent&eventId=488273&pubCalId=GRP1445 Michael Chabon] at Fine Arts Auditorium, 5:30 p.m.
* February 8: [http://www.theroommovie.com/screeningspop.html Tommy Wiseau's Love Is Blind Tour] (showing of "[[wikipedia:The Room (film)|The Room]]" w/ Q&A!)
* February 8: [http://music.indiana.edu/events/share.php?e=9225 IU Wind Ensemble] at Musical Arts Center - FREE!
* February 9: [http://music.indiana.edu/events/share.php?e=9226 IU University Orchestra] at Musical Arts Center - FREE!
* February 8 and 9: [http://www.iuauditorium.com/site/show-fiddler.html Fiddler on the Roof] at the IU Auditorium - $38-60
* February 9: [http://dylanettinger.bandcamp.com/ Dylan Ettinger]/[http://www.myspace.com/kamkama Kam Kama] at The Bishop
* February 10: Bob Marley's band [http://wailers.com/ Legendary Wailers] at [http://www.thebluebird.ws/ Bluebird Nightclub] - $20
* February 10: Amy Schumer at [http://www.comedyattic.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=84:amy-schumer&Itemid=3 The Comedy Attic] - $13

Things to see:
* Indiana University Art Museum: [http://www.iub.edu/~iuam/section.php?navSection=galleries New in the Galleries]
* Indiana University SoFA Gallery: [http://www.indiana.edu/~sofa/exhibitions/iu-school-of-fine-arts-student-shows-1/ MFA Painting, Metals, Graphic Design, Ceramics, and Textiles]
* [http://www.indiana.edu/~mathers/=Indiana University Mathers Museum]

==Recommended Restaurants/Bars (no particular order)==

* [http://www.the-uptown.com/ Uptown Café] - great for breakfast, lunch, or wine
* [http://www.villagedeli.biz/ Village Deli] - can accommodate large crowds for breakfast or lunch
* [http://grazieitalianeatery.com/Welcome.html Grazie] - Italian, great wine selection
* Japanee (320 N. Walnut St) - Bento Box lunch – yum!
* [http://www.maxsplace.info/ Max’s Place] - pizza and beer
* [http://www.samirasrestaurant.com/ Samira] - Afghanistan cuisine – lunch buffet w/ roasted chicken
* Shanti (221 E. Kirkwood Ave) - great for lunch
* [http://www.esanthairestaurant.com/ Esan Thai] - delicious, but slow service
* [http://www.cafedjango.us/ Café Django] - Indian and Thai, great noodle dishes
* [http://www.stefanoscafe.com/ Stefano’s Ice Café] - best chicken salad sandwich in town
* [http://www.thelaughingplanetcafe.com/ Laughing Planet] - yummy burritos/nachos
* [http://www.bbcbagel.com/ Bloomington Bagel Co.] - best bagels in town
* RockIt's Pizza (222 N. Walnut St) - open late for a slice after visiting nearby bars
* [http://www.farm-bloomington.com/ Farm] - fun little hipster whiskey bar in basement
* [http://www.nicksenglishhut.com/ Nick's] - local meat, in-house batter for deep fried goodness
* [http://www.bbcbloomington.com/ Lennie’s Bar & Grill] - local brew
* [http://squaredonuts.com Square Donuts] - donuts that are square and fresh and you eat them zomg
* [http://uplandbeer.com/ Upland Brewing Co.] - more local brew (different from Lennie's)
* [http://www.irishlion.com/ The Irish Lion] - Irish pub, Guinness on tap
* [http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/Bloomington_Sandwich_Company Bloomington Sandwich Co.] - great for lunch, yummy reuben
* Bub’s Burgers and Ice Cream (480 N. Morton St) - eat the giganto burger in a certain time limit, get your picture on the wall (if that's what you're into)
* [http://www.yogis.com/ Yogi's Grill & Bar] - bazillion beer choices
* Restaurant Ami (1500 E. 3rd St) - Japanese/Korean, great for lunch
* [http://www.turkuazcafe.com/ Turkuaz Cafe] - Turkish, pides great for lunch
* [http://www.crazyhorseindiana.com/ Crazy Horse] - also bazillion beer choices
* [http://www.finchsbrasserie.com/ Finch's] - great wine selection

==Planned events==

Plan one if you like! Either on your own or you can [[2011 committees_sign-up_page|join the social activities committee]].

=== [[Craft Brew Drinkup]] ===
''''Tuesday 2/8, 8:30PM, Hospitality suite'''' Like good beer? Bring some in your luggage! Some of us are planning on bringing on bottles of our favorite local brews to share. Interested? Sign up on the [[Craft Brew Drinkup]] page!

=== Newcomer Dinner ===
First time at code4lib? Join fellow c4l newbies and veterans for an evening of food, socializing, and stimulating <strike>discussions about</strike> demonstrations of the many uses of <strike>bacon</strike> dongles.

Code4Lib veterans, you're invited too. Join us in welcoming the newcomers!

'''Plans'''
* When: Monday evening (2/7)
* Time: 6 PM (ish)
* Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:yoosebj@muohio.edu Becky Yoose]

''Guidelines:''
*Max of '''6''' per location
**Please, no waitlisting :(
*ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans in each group
**New folks - n
**c4l vets - v
*One leader needed for each location (declare yourself! - '''Vets are highly encouraged to lead the group :)''')
**Leader duties
***Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 6 rowdy library coders
***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)

'''Restaurants'''

'''West Side of Campus (towards downtown)'''

'''Indiana Avenue''', across street from campus (5-10 minute walk)

[http://www.buffalouies.com/home.html Buffa Louie's] (Wings/Subs/Sandwiches) - Gables location on Indiana Avenue is historic site

'''4th St. between IMU and downtown square''' (10-15 minute walk)

[http://www.anyetsangs.com/ Anyetsang's Little Tibet] (Tibetan/Thai/Indian)
*Dot Porter (leader) - n
*Jason Ronallo - n
*Ben Anderson - n
*Bill Dueber - v
*Jakub Skoczen - n

[http://www.siamhousebloomington.com/ Siam House] (Thai) ''Meet in the Biddle hotel lobby at 6pm. Look for the short woman in a trench coat and wide brim hat ~Becky''
*Becky Yoose (leader) - v
*Margaret Heller - n
*Bohyun Kim - n
*Karen Hanson - v
*Daniel Lovins - v
*Gerald Snyder - v
*<strike>Wayne Schneider - v</strike> off to hear [https://onestart.iu.edu/ccl-prd/EventMaintenance.do?methodToCall=viewEvent&eventId=488273&pubCalId=GRP1445 Michael Chabon] instead.

Puccini's La Dolce Vita (Italian)

'''Kirkwood Ave. (5th St) between IMU and downtown square''' (10-15 minute walk)

[http://www.nicksenglishhut.com/ Nick's English Hut] (American Pub) - NOTE: web site plays IU fight song - 'Meet near the code4lib registration desk at 6:00pm'
*Mike Durbin (leader, but only if other people come)

[http://www.cafepizzaria.com/ Cafe Pizzaria] (Pizza)

[http://www.falafelsonline.com/Falafels/www.FalafelsOnline.com.html Falafels] (Middle Eastern)

[http://www.finchsbrasserie.com/ Finch's] (Gastropub-ish)
* Cary Gordon (leader) - v
* Michael Doran - v
* Tim Daniels - n
* Joshua Gomez - n
* Jenny Reiswig - n
* Kosuke Tanabe - n

Note: FARMbloomingon is closed on Mondays

[http://www.the-uptown.com/ Michael's Uptown Cafe] (Cajun/Creole/American) ''To walk to restaurant, meet in lounge upstairs from hotel lobby in IMU at 6pm. Reservation for 6:30pm at Uptown (under Julie Hardesty).''
*[mailto:jlhardes@indiana.edu Julie Hardesty] (leader) - n
*Jean Rainwater - v
*D Ruth Bavousett - n
* Theodor T - n
*Sarah Weeks - n
*Mark Mounts - v
* Takanori Hayashi -n

[http://www.thetrojanhorse.com/ Trojan Horse] (Greek)

Shanti (Indian, Vegetarian options)

'''6th St. between IMU and downtown square''' (10-15 minute walk)

[http://www.runciblespoonrestaurant.com/ Runcible Spoon] (Variety, Vegetarian/Vegan options)

'''Grant St. between 3rd St. and 6th St.''', about halfway between IMU and downtown square (10-15 minute walk)

[http://cafedjango.us/ Cafe Django] (Indian, Thai, Vegetarian options) ''Meet in the Biddle hotel lobby at 6pm. Look for the guy with the bright blue knitted Mets hat.''
* Maccabee Levine (leader) - v
* Andrew Darby - v
* Michael Slone - n
* Linda Ballinger - n
* Nell Taylor - n
* Richard Anderson - n

[http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/Snow_Lion Snow Lion] (Tibetan, Indian, Vegetarian options)

'''Lincoln St. between 3rd St. and 6th St.''', about halfway between IMU and downtown square (15-20 minute walk)

[http://www.esanthairestaurant.com/ Esan Thai] (Thai, Vegetarian options) ''Meet outside Whittenberger Auditorium at 6pm''
* Ryan Scherle (leader) - v
* Jason Stirnaman (drummer) - v
* Jon Dunn - n
* Richard Maiti - n
* Mike Stroming - n
* Trish Rose-Sandler (can drive if needed) - n

'''Downtown Square''' (20-25 minute walk)

[http://uplandbeer.com/ Upland Brewing] (Microbrewery)

:Note: Lennie's (below) is also a Microbrewery/restaurant

* THE ARCHITECT'S GROUP
** Mike Giarlo (leader) - v
** Jay Luker (wall dodger) - v
** Benoit Thiell (french tickler) - n
** Dan Suchy (designated non-driver) - v
** Matt Critchlow (lupulin addict) - n
** Esme Cowles (designated non-walker) -v
* THE ARCHIVIST'S GROUP
** Mark Matienzo (leader) - v
** Joe Atzberger (agitator) - v
** Hillel Arnold (intern) - n
** Mark Custer (title tk) - n
** Patrick Force (TBD) - n
** Adam Wead (zymurgist) - n
** Christopher Chagal (#7 apparently, but I had to squeeze into one of these groups. Exhibit A: [http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1102/beer-map/flat.html The United States of GOOD beer]) - v
* THE DIRECTOR'S GROUP (where DIRECTOR = people cooler than Giarlo or Matienzo. Which is pretty much anyone. Except McDonald.)
** Declan Fleming - v
** Mark Phillips - v
** Tim Donohue (not a "director", per se, but I enjoy microbrew beer) - v
** Andrea Schurr (not a "director" at all, but will pretend for good beer) - n
** Larry Baerveldt (also not a director, but I like beer, and this group isn't full yet) - n
** Shaun Ellis (all I know is that I'm following Declan when beer is involved) - n

[http://www.irishlion.com/ Irish Lion] (Irish Pub)

[http://www.crazyhorseindiana.com/ Crazy Horse] (American) ''Meet near Walnut Meeting Room (M015) at 6pm''
* Joel Richard (leader, usurped. richardjm at si dot edu) - v
* Genevieve Francis - n
* Ben Shum (bshum AT biblio DOT org)- n
* Francis Kayiwa - (former leader francis dot kayiwa AT gmail) n
* Roberto Hoyle - n
* Hui Zhang - n (hz3 AT indiana DOT edu)

[http://www.grazieitalianeatery.com/Welcome.html Grazie] (Italian)

[http://www.samirasrestaurant.com/ Samira] (Afghanistan cuisine) - ''let's meet at 6pm in the mezzanine (above the hotel lobby)''
* Ranti Junus (ranti dot junus at gmail) (lead) - v
* Andreas Orphanides - v
* Matt Connolly - v ( back in the game.)
* Toke Eskildsen - intermediate
* Mads Villadsen - intermediate
* Will Kurt - n

[http://www.opietaylors.com/welcome.html Opie Taylors] (American)

[http://www.malibugrill.net/ Malibu Grill] (California)

[http://www.littlezagreb.com/ Janko's Little Zagreb] (Steakhouse)

[http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/El_Norteño El Norteño] (Mexican)

[http://www.maxsplace.info/ Max's Place] (Pizza)

[http://www.restauranttallent.com/ Tallent] (Local/Seasonal)
''7:00 Reservation for 2 tables, 6 people each; will remix at dessert''

ULCERATIVE LOONS GROUP
* Matt Zumwalt (leader) - v
* Michael Levy - n
* Devon Smith - v
* Sean Hannan - v
* Steven Miles - n
* Naomi Dushay - v

TROUBLEMAKERS GROUP
* Eric Hellman (leader) - v
* Michael Klein (troublemaker) - v
* Matt Cordial - v
* Scot Colford (natalie wood to round out the james deans of troublemakers) - v
* Rachel Frick
* Ken Irwin - (semi-v)

Roots on the Square (Vegan/Vegetarian)

'''East Side of Campus (away from downtown)'''

'''10th St., east of Wells Library''' (10-15 minute walk)

[http://www.bbcbloomington.com/ Lennie's Bar & Grill] (Pizza/American) + (Microbrewery) - ''Meet in the Biddle hotel lobby at 6:15pm. Reservation made for 6 at 6:45pm''

* [mailto:ryanwick@gmail.com Ryan Wick] (leader) - v
* June Rayner - n
* Roni Shwaish - n
* Kirk Hess (I'm a local & I think Lennie's has better beer & food than Upland.) - n
* Aaron Collie (Listens to locals; wonders who will be the last person to sign up) - n
* eby - v

'''3rd St., east of Music School''' (10-15 minute walk)

[http://www.motherbearspizza.com/index2.html Mother Bear's Pizza] (Pizza)

[http://www.macgyros.com/ The MAC] (Mediterranean)

[http://www.yelp.com/biz/red-chopsticks-bloomington Red Chopsticks] (Sushi/Asian Fusion)

Cafe Ami/Domo (Japanese/Korean)

=== "Social Network Dine Arounds" ===

Wednesday night. Not sure what these are. Make it up as you go. Be social, network, dine around.

'''Dine with Hydra'''
Wednesday Evening (time & location TBD)

Join us if you want to connect with the [http://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/The+Hydra+Project Hydra] developer community. More info to come.

[[Category: Code4Lib2011]]

2011 Preconference Proposals

2011-02-07T19:27:32Z

Jcmeloni: /* Code4Lib Preconference Unconference */

= Proposals for 2011 Code4LibCon Preconferences =

Proposals will close Friday November 19 so we can finalize the list and add them to registration!

We'll have space for up to 3 full-day pre-conferences and 3-6 half-day pre-conferences.

'''Please include a "Contact/Responsible Individual" name and email address so we know who is willing to put on the proposed precon.'''

==Full Day==

=== CURATEcamp Hackfest ===
* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in digital curation? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3 Access 2010 Hackfest]. I propose a full-day hackfest with a focus on the domains of digital curation, preservation, and repositories -- think stuff like CDL's microservices, Hydra, Fedora, etc. Here's how it works, roughly: we assemble in the morning and do some whiteboarding, mostly to gauge folks' interests and jot down project ideas; then we separate into teams and hack on stuff for the rest of the day and present our progress at the end. Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable! (Participants may begin kicking around [[2011 CURATEcamp Hackfest Ideas]].)
* Duration: full-day
* Speaker Bio: Facilitators of the CURATEcamp Hackfest will be:
** Shaun Ellis - Digital Library Collections Interface Developer, Princeton University Library
** Jason Fowler - Programmer Analyst, UBC Library Systems
* Contact: Mike Giarlo (michael at psu.edu)

==Half Day Morning==

=== What's New In Solr ===
* Description: The library world is fired up about Solr. Practically every next-gen catalog is using it (via Blacklight, VuFind, or other technologies). Solr has continued improving in some dramatic ways, including geospatial support, field collapsing/grouping, extended dismax query parsing, pivot/grid/matrix/tree faceting, autosuggest, and more. This session will cover all of these new features, showcasing live examples of them all, including anything new that is implemented prior to the conference.
* Duration: half-day
* Speaker Bio: Erik has spoken at several code4lib conferences (Keynoted Athens '07 along with the infamous pioneering Solr preconference, presented at Providence '09, and pre-conferenced Asheville '10). Erik co-authored "Lucene in Action", and he's a Lucene and Solr committer. His library world claims to fame are founding and naming Blacklight, original developer on Collex and the Rossetti Archive search.
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidimagination.com)

=== Intro to Functional Programming with JavaScript (and a little Haskell) ===
* [http://www.slideshare.net/willkurt/intro-to-functional-programming-workshop-code4lib Slides]
* [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5373312/Code4libFPfinaldoc.pdf Workbook]

* Description: Functional programming is a topic that is becoming increasingly important for programmers to be aware of. Unfortunately it also has the reputation of being an area of programming that is particularly difficult and academic. Languages like Haskell, while being very powerful, certainly live up to this reputation. However many of the essential features of functional programming can be explored through a language as simple and commonplace as JavaScript.

:This preconference talk will cover what makes a language ‘functional’ and the usage and implementation of essential features of functional programming: first-class functions, lambda functions, higher order functions, closures, and function currying. It will show how many of the powerful abstractions in a language like Haskell can also be implemented in a language like JavaScript, this will include a discussion of the trade offs between purity and performance.

:The aim of this talk is to prepare participants to both implement functional techniques in everyday programming, as well as start exploring the topic more academically. Even if you never plan on coding in a purely functional style this workshop will give you an understanding of topics that should improve your programming in other languages with functional features such as Ruby, Python, and C#. At the very least after this workshop you can go to the bar and throw around words like “lambda function”, “closure” and “currying” with confidence!
* Duration: half-day
* Speaker Bio: Will Kurt is the Applications Development Librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is also working on a master’s in Computer Science. He has spoken at several library conferences including Computers in Libraries and Internet Librarian on topics including the Microsoft Surface and Visualizing Information.
* Contact: Will Kurt (wkurt at unr.edu)

=== Running cloud Servers ===
*Desription: In this pre-conference we will work with the Amazon EC2, S3, and EBS platforms to launch, configure and deploy cloud-based servers. The workshop will include a series of short hands-on tutorials designed to take you from complete novice to semi-skilled cloud server administrator. the tutorials include: 1)short overview of Amazon cloud services and how they are used 2)Amazon registration, 3)Launching, configuring and securing your first instance, 4)Installing a service (Vufind) and 5)Backing up in the cloud - Backup routines and server images.
*Duration: half-day
*Speaker Bio: Erik Mitchell is the Assistant Director for Technology Services at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Over the past year he and his team have focused on using cloud-based services to serve the IT needs of the ZSR library. More information about the work done on this project can be found at [http://zsr.wfu.edu/litacloud], [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2510]
*Contact: mitcheet at wfu dot edu

=== Creating a new JHOVE2 Format Module===

Description: JHOVE2 is a Java framework and application for format-aware characterization of files, byte streams within files, and file containers or other file aggregations. JHOVE2 examines a digital source unit and extracts feature information about that source unit for purposes of classification, analysis, and use.

JHOVE2 is a significant re-engineering of its JHOVE ([http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/ http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/]) predecessor, with a highly modular structure, intended to facilitate the rapid creation of new characterization modules for many formats that can easily be plugged into the JHOVE2 framework. The initial JHOVE2 distribution includes modules for UTF-8, SGML, Shapefile, TIFF, WAV, XML, and ICC color profiles, with ZIP, PDF and JPEG-2000 modules expected to be deployed in the next few months. Developers at the Wegener Institute ([http://www.awi-potsdam.de http://www.awi-potsdam.de] ) have already created new modules for netCDF and GRIB. Developers at the French National Library (La Bibliothèque nationale de France [http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html]) are currently working on GZIP and ARC modules.

This session will provide an overview of the JHOVE2 processing module and plug-in architecture, and will walk through the steps of creating a new format module.

For more information, visit http://jhove2.org.

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Sheila Morrissey is a member of the JHOVE2 development team and is Senior Research Developer at Portico ([http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/ http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/])

Contact: Sheila Morrissey <sheila dot morrissey at ithaka dot org>

==Half Day Afternoon==

=== Using JHOVE2 for Policy Assessment of Files ===

Description: JHOVE2 is a Java framework and application for format-aware characterization of files, bytestreams within files, and file containers or other file aggregatations. JHOVE2 examine a digital source unit and extracts feature information about that source unit for purposes of classification, analysis, and use.

In addition to detailed output of the features of a format instance, JHOVE2 can provide summary determination of the validity of an item (its conformance to the normative syntactic and semantic requirements defined by an authoritative specification) and can be used for assessing the level of acceptability of a digital object for a specific purpose on the basis of locally-defined policy rules. The latter is one of the significant enhancements of JHOVE2 over its predecessor.

This session will provide some examples of the structure of JHOVE2 format modules, the outputs produced by those modules, and the configuration of the JHOVE2 assessment module so that it can be used to perform rule-based analysis of the reportable properties previously generated during characterization of a source unit.

For more information, visit [http://jhove2.org http://jhove2.org].

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Richard Anderson is a member of the JHOVE2 develpment team and a Software Engineer with the Digital Library Systems and Services unit of Stanford University

Contact: Richard Anderson <rnanders at stanford dot edu>

=== Publishing Historic Newspapers with NDNP tools ===

* An in-depth session on publishing and working with historic newspaper content made available through the US National Digital Newspaper Program. The software behind the LC-hosted site at [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ chroniclingamerica.loc.gov] (python/django/mysql/solr) is available under a free/libre/open source license at [http://sourceforge.net/projects/loc-ndnp/ sourceforge]. This session will include an introduction to the program and working with the software; discussion of adding features such as linking between ChromAm at LC and other institutions publishing the same newspaper content; creating structure and submission for user edited OCR corrections; and article level viewing. This event is open to everyone - non-NDNP participants are invited to join us and learn how to work with this content and help consider how to improve the software. The schedule will include ample time for technical discussion and hacking on the software itself.

* Duration: half-day
* Contact: Karen Estlund, University of Oregon Libraries; Dan Chudnov, Library of Congress

=== VIVO Boot Camp===

Description: VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell University. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information and includes options for RDF linked data distribution.

This boot camp will be run by members of the NIH/NCRR funded VIVO network and will focus on four components including, an overview of what VIVO is and how it can help researchers, an installation walk-through, how VIVO works (its ontology, visualization functionality, and user interface), and future directions for the project (e.g. profile data re-use in CMSs such as Drupal and Joomla!, federated search, etc.).

For more information, visit [http://vivoweb.org http://vivoweb.org].

Duration: half-day

Speakers:
*Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College
*Nick Cappadona, Cornell University
*Ying Ding, Indiana University
*Bryan Keese, Indiana University
*Micah Linnemeier, Indiana University
*Ryan Cobine, Indiana University

Contact: Ryan Cobine <rcobine AT indiana DOT edu>

=== Islandora Repository System ===

Description: The Islandora project (islandora.ca) is growing, with new functionality provided by Solr integration and funding to support the growth of this OS project beyond our library borders. Islandora provides integration between Fedora and Drupal, with custom solution packs to address the needs of multiple data types. This session will review the project's development and current features, as well as providing guidance for basic installation and configuration.

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Mark Leggott is the founder of the Islandora project. As the UL for the University of Prince Edward Island, and the projects major architect. He has spoken at a number of conferences, and is the founder of a new SaSS company providing services around Islandora software.

'''Update 1/12''': Paul Pound will co-lead; Kirsta Stapelfeldt will not attend.

Contact: Kirsta Stapelfeldt (kstapelfeldt AT upei.ca)

=== Code4Lib Preconference Unconference===

* Description: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference "Wikipedia entry for unconference"] will give you a good idea what to expect. An "unconference" is "a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose." These unconferences came up from the hacker world (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcamp "BarCamp"]) as a way to avoid high conference fees and sponsored presentations. Unconferences are not spectactor events, nor are they places to "be seen." Participants are involved from the schedule creation to the wrap-up session, and actively present, discuss, and collaborate with fellow participants. In recent years, [http://thatcamp.org/ "THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp)"] has become a popular incarnation of the *camp gathering. In general, check your papers at the door, and just be ready to talk about the work you’re doing, the work you want to do, how you might collaborate with others. Think of it like a conference entirely made up of [[2011_Breakout_Sessions | breakout sessions]], but with some unifying theme. Or not. It depends on you. Now, how will we run an unconference in three hours and in one room? Carefully. I propose a rough schedule of 30 minutes for discussion-of-topics, then three 45-minute bursts of discussions, followed by 15 minutes of wrap-up. As this is all user-generated, it's all up for change in that first 30 minutes. We can have as many concurrent bursts-of-discussion as will fit in the one room, and that would also allow greater flexibility for wandering between groups. This is actually a compressed micro preconference unconference, that should--if all goes according to plan--produce a really fun, interesting, collaborative time, as well as a model that could be taken back to our own workplaces. '''Please''' contact the organizer with questions as well as any ideas for conversations you might want to have; will update this entry accordingly.

* Duration: half-day

* Organizer / Contact: Julie Meloni (jcmeloni AT gmail dot com)

* '''THE SCHEDULE''' Admin/Schedule setting from 1:30-2:00 Session 1 (210-250pm) A: Web Services & Libraries ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PC0vHWCJEA8v8VE0Z_-W-dLPaiYYYwKFDT1JIyCrP9M/edit?hl=en Web Services Google Doc]), B: UI/UX Test & Development Session 2 (2:50-3:30) A: Linked Data/Non-MARC Metadata, B: How Do We Work (Well) Session 3 (3:30-4:10) A: Search (Lots of Things), B: Mobile Web/Location-Based Wrap-Up/Sharing (until 4:30).

[[Category:Code4Lib2011]]

2011 Preconference Proposals

2011-02-07T19:19:59Z

Jcmeloni: /* Code4Lib Preconference Unconference */

= Proposals for 2011 Code4LibCon Preconferences =

Proposals will close Friday November 19 so we can finalize the list and add them to registration!

We'll have space for up to 3 full-day pre-conferences and 3-6 half-day pre-conferences.

'''Please include a "Contact/Responsible Individual" name and email address so we know who is willing to put on the proposed precon.'''

==Full Day==

=== CURATEcamp Hackfest ===
* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in digital curation? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3 Access 2010 Hackfest]. I propose a full-day hackfest with a focus on the domains of digital curation, preservation, and repositories -- think stuff like CDL's microservices, Hydra, Fedora, etc. Here's how it works, roughly: we assemble in the morning and do some whiteboarding, mostly to gauge folks' interests and jot down project ideas; then we separate into teams and hack on stuff for the rest of the day and present our progress at the end. Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable! (Participants may begin kicking around [[2011 CURATEcamp Hackfest Ideas]].)
* Duration: full-day
* Speaker Bio: Facilitators of the CURATEcamp Hackfest will be:
** Shaun Ellis - Digital Library Collections Interface Developer, Princeton University Library
** Jason Fowler - Programmer Analyst, UBC Library Systems
* Contact: Mike Giarlo (michael at psu.edu)

==Half Day Morning==

=== What's New In Solr ===
* Description: The library world is fired up about Solr. Practically every next-gen catalog is using it (via Blacklight, VuFind, or other technologies). Solr has continued improving in some dramatic ways, including geospatial support, field collapsing/grouping, extended dismax query parsing, pivot/grid/matrix/tree faceting, autosuggest, and more. This session will cover all of these new features, showcasing live examples of them all, including anything new that is implemented prior to the conference.
* Duration: half-day
* Speaker Bio: Erik has spoken at several code4lib conferences (Keynoted Athens '07 along with the infamous pioneering Solr preconference, presented at Providence '09, and pre-conferenced Asheville '10). Erik co-authored "Lucene in Action", and he's a Lucene and Solr committer. His library world claims to fame are founding and naming Blacklight, original developer on Collex and the Rossetti Archive search.
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidimagination.com)

=== Intro to Functional Programming with JavaScript (and a little Haskell) ===
* [http://www.slideshare.net/willkurt/intro-to-functional-programming-workshop-code4lib Slides]
* [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5373312/Code4libFPfinaldoc.pdf Workbook]

* Description: Functional programming is a topic that is becoming increasingly important for programmers to be aware of. Unfortunately it also has the reputation of being an area of programming that is particularly difficult and academic. Languages like Haskell, while being very powerful, certainly live up to this reputation. However many of the essential features of functional programming can be explored through a language as simple and commonplace as JavaScript.

:This preconference talk will cover what makes a language ‘functional’ and the usage and implementation of essential features of functional programming: first-class functions, lambda functions, higher order functions, closures, and function currying. It will show how many of the powerful abstractions in a language like Haskell can also be implemented in a language like JavaScript, this will include a discussion of the trade offs between purity and performance.

:The aim of this talk is to prepare participants to both implement functional techniques in everyday programming, as well as start exploring the topic more academically. Even if you never plan on coding in a purely functional style this workshop will give you an understanding of topics that should improve your programming in other languages with functional features such as Ruby, Python, and C#. At the very least after this workshop you can go to the bar and throw around words like “lambda function”, “closure” and “currying” with confidence!
* Duration: half-day
* Speaker Bio: Will Kurt is the Applications Development Librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is also working on a master’s in Computer Science. He has spoken at several library conferences including Computers in Libraries and Internet Librarian on topics including the Microsoft Surface and Visualizing Information.
* Contact: Will Kurt (wkurt at unr.edu)

=== Running cloud Servers ===
*Desription: In this pre-conference we will work with the Amazon EC2, S3, and EBS platforms to launch, configure and deploy cloud-based servers. The workshop will include a series of short hands-on tutorials designed to take you from complete novice to semi-skilled cloud server administrator. the tutorials include: 1)short overview of Amazon cloud services and how they are used 2)Amazon registration, 3)Launching, configuring and securing your first instance, 4)Installing a service (Vufind) and 5)Backing up in the cloud - Backup routines and server images.
*Duration: half-day
*Speaker Bio: Erik Mitchell is the Assistant Director for Technology Services at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Over the past year he and his team have focused on using cloud-based services to serve the IT needs of the ZSR library. More information about the work done on this project can be found at [http://zsr.wfu.edu/litacloud], [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2510]
*Contact: mitcheet at wfu dot edu

=== Creating a new JHOVE2 Format Module===

Description: JHOVE2 is a Java framework and application for format-aware characterization of files, byte streams within files, and file containers or other file aggregations. JHOVE2 examines a digital source unit and extracts feature information about that source unit for purposes of classification, analysis, and use.

JHOVE2 is a significant re-engineering of its JHOVE ([http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/ http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/]) predecessor, with a highly modular structure, intended to facilitate the rapid creation of new characterization modules for many formats that can easily be plugged into the JHOVE2 framework. The initial JHOVE2 distribution includes modules for UTF-8, SGML, Shapefile, TIFF, WAV, XML, and ICC color profiles, with ZIP, PDF and JPEG-2000 modules expected to be deployed in the next few months. Developers at the Wegener Institute ([http://www.awi-potsdam.de http://www.awi-potsdam.de] ) have already created new modules for netCDF and GRIB. Developers at the French National Library (La Bibliothèque nationale de France [http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html]) are currently working on GZIP and ARC modules.

This session will provide an overview of the JHOVE2 processing module and plug-in architecture, and will walk through the steps of creating a new format module.

For more information, visit http://jhove2.org.

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Sheila Morrissey is a member of the JHOVE2 development team and is Senior Research Developer at Portico ([http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/ http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/])

Contact: Sheila Morrissey <sheila dot morrissey at ithaka dot org>

==Half Day Afternoon==

=== Using JHOVE2 for Policy Assessment of Files ===

Description: JHOVE2 is a Java framework and application for format-aware characterization of files, bytestreams within files, and file containers or other file aggregatations. JHOVE2 examine a digital source unit and extracts feature information about that source unit for purposes of classification, analysis, and use.

In addition to detailed output of the features of a format instance, JHOVE2 can provide summary determination of the validity of an item (its conformance to the normative syntactic and semantic requirements defined by an authoritative specification) and can be used for assessing the level of acceptability of a digital object for a specific purpose on the basis of locally-defined policy rules. The latter is one of the significant enhancements of JHOVE2 over its predecessor.

This session will provide some examples of the structure of JHOVE2 format modules, the outputs produced by those modules, and the configuration of the JHOVE2 assessment module so that it can be used to perform rule-based analysis of the reportable properties previously generated during characterization of a source unit.

For more information, visit [http://jhove2.org http://jhove2.org].

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Richard Anderson is a member of the JHOVE2 develpment team and a Software Engineer with the Digital Library Systems and Services unit of Stanford University

Contact: Richard Anderson <rnanders at stanford dot edu>

=== Publishing Historic Newspapers with NDNP tools ===

* An in-depth session on publishing and working with historic newspaper content made available through the US National Digital Newspaper Program. The software behind the LC-hosted site at [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ chroniclingamerica.loc.gov] (python/django/mysql/solr) is available under a free/libre/open source license at [http://sourceforge.net/projects/loc-ndnp/ sourceforge]. This session will include an introduction to the program and working with the software; discussion of adding features such as linking between ChromAm at LC and other institutions publishing the same newspaper content; creating structure and submission for user edited OCR corrections; and article level viewing. This event is open to everyone - non-NDNP participants are invited to join us and learn how to work with this content and help consider how to improve the software. The schedule will include ample time for technical discussion and hacking on the software itself.

* Duration: half-day
* Contact: Karen Estlund, University of Oregon Libraries; Dan Chudnov, Library of Congress

=== VIVO Boot Camp===

Description: VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell University. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information and includes options for RDF linked data distribution.

This boot camp will be run by members of the NIH/NCRR funded VIVO network and will focus on four components including, an overview of what VIVO is and how it can help researchers, an installation walk-through, how VIVO works (its ontology, visualization functionality, and user interface), and future directions for the project (e.g. profile data re-use in CMSs such as Drupal and Joomla!, federated search, etc.).

For more information, visit [http://vivoweb.org http://vivoweb.org].

Duration: half-day

Speakers:
*Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College
*Nick Cappadona, Cornell University
*Ying Ding, Indiana University
*Bryan Keese, Indiana University
*Micah Linnemeier, Indiana University
*Ryan Cobine, Indiana University

Contact: Ryan Cobine <rcobine AT indiana DOT edu>

=== Islandora Repository System ===

Description: The Islandora project (islandora.ca) is growing, with new functionality provided by Solr integration and funding to support the growth of this OS project beyond our library borders. Islandora provides integration between Fedora and Drupal, with custom solution packs to address the needs of multiple data types. This session will review the project's development and current features, as well as providing guidance for basic installation and configuration.

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Mark Leggott is the founder of the Islandora project. As the UL for the University of Prince Edward Island, and the projects major architect. He has spoken at a number of conferences, and is the founder of a new SaSS company providing services around Islandora software.

'''Update 1/12''': Paul Pound will co-lead; Kirsta Stapelfeldt will not attend.

Contact: Kirsta Stapelfeldt (kstapelfeldt AT upei.ca)

=== Code4Lib Preconference Unconference===

* Description: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference "Wikipedia entry for unconference"] will give you a good idea what to expect. An "unconference" is "a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose." These unconferences came up from the hacker world (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcamp "BarCamp"]) as a way to avoid high conference fees and sponsored presentations. Unconferences are not spectactor events, nor are they places to "be seen." Participants are involved from the schedule creation to the wrap-up session, and actively present, discuss, and collaborate with fellow participants. In recent years, [http://thatcamp.org/ "THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp)"] has become a popular incarnation of the *camp gathering. In general, check your papers at the door, and just be ready to talk about the work you’re doing, the work you want to do, how you might collaborate with others. Think of it like a conference entirely made up of [[2011_Breakout_Sessions | breakout sessions]], but with some unifying theme. Or not. It depends on you. Now, how will we run an unconference in three hours and in one room? Carefully. I propose a rough schedule of 30 minutes for discussion-of-topics, then three 45-minute bursts of discussions, followed by 15 minutes of wrap-up. As this is all user-generated, it's all up for change in that first 30 minutes. We can have as many concurrent bursts-of-discussion as will fit in the one room, and that would also allow greater flexibility for wandering between groups. This is actually a compressed micro preconference unconference, that should--if all goes according to plan--produce a really fun, interesting, collaborative time, as well as a model that could be taken back to our own workplaces. '''Please''' contact the organizer with questions as well as any ideas for conversations you might want to have; will update this entry accordingly.

* Duration: half-day

* Organizer / Contact: Julie Meloni (jcmeloni AT gmail dot com)

* '''THE SCHEDULE''' Admin/Schedule setting from 1:30-2:00 Session 1 (210-250pm) A: Web Services & Libraries ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PC0vHWCJEA8v8VE0Z_-W-dLPaiYYYwKFDT1JIyCrP9M/edit?hl=en | Web Services Google Doc]), B: UI/UX Test & Development Session 2 (2:50-3:30) A: Linked Data/Non-MARC Metadata, B: How Do We Work (Well) Session 3 (3:30-4:10) A: Search (Lots of Things), B: Mobile Web/Location-Based Wrap-Up/Sharing (until 4:30).

[[Category:Code4Lib2011]]

2011 Preconference Proposals

2011-02-07T19:14:13Z

Jcmeloni: /* Code4Lib Preconference Unconference */

= Proposals for 2011 Code4LibCon Preconferences =

Proposals will close Friday November 19 so we can finalize the list and add them to registration!

We'll have space for up to 3 full-day pre-conferences and 3-6 half-day pre-conferences.

'''Please include a "Contact/Responsible Individual" name and email address so we know who is willing to put on the proposed precon.'''

==Full Day==

=== CURATEcamp Hackfest ===
* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in digital curation? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3 Access 2010 Hackfest]. I propose a full-day hackfest with a focus on the domains of digital curation, preservation, and repositories -- think stuff like CDL's microservices, Hydra, Fedora, etc. Here's how it works, roughly: we assemble in the morning and do some whiteboarding, mostly to gauge folks' interests and jot down project ideas; then we separate into teams and hack on stuff for the rest of the day and present our progress at the end. Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable! (Participants may begin kicking around [[2011 CURATEcamp Hackfest Ideas]].)
* Duration: full-day
* Speaker Bio: Facilitators of the CURATEcamp Hackfest will be:
** Shaun Ellis - Digital Library Collections Interface Developer, Princeton University Library
** Jason Fowler - Programmer Analyst, UBC Library Systems
* Contact: Mike Giarlo (michael at psu.edu)

==Half Day Morning==

=== What's New In Solr ===
* Description: The library world is fired up about Solr. Practically every next-gen catalog is using it (via Blacklight, VuFind, or other technologies). Solr has continued improving in some dramatic ways, including geospatial support, field collapsing/grouping, extended dismax query parsing, pivot/grid/matrix/tree faceting, autosuggest, and more. This session will cover all of these new features, showcasing live examples of them all, including anything new that is implemented prior to the conference.
* Duration: half-day
* Speaker Bio: Erik has spoken at several code4lib conferences (Keynoted Athens '07 along with the infamous pioneering Solr preconference, presented at Providence '09, and pre-conferenced Asheville '10). Erik co-authored "Lucene in Action", and he's a Lucene and Solr committer. His library world claims to fame are founding and naming Blacklight, original developer on Collex and the Rossetti Archive search.
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidimagination.com)

=== Intro to Functional Programming with JavaScript (and a little Haskell) ===
* [http://www.slideshare.net/willkurt/intro-to-functional-programming-workshop-code4lib Slides]
* [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5373312/Code4libFPfinaldoc.pdf Workbook]

* Description: Functional programming is a topic that is becoming increasingly important for programmers to be aware of. Unfortunately it also has the reputation of being an area of programming that is particularly difficult and academic. Languages like Haskell, while being very powerful, certainly live up to this reputation. However many of the essential features of functional programming can be explored through a language as simple and commonplace as JavaScript.

:This preconference talk will cover what makes a language ‘functional’ and the usage and implementation of essential features of functional programming: first-class functions, lambda functions, higher order functions, closures, and function currying. It will show how many of the powerful abstractions in a language like Haskell can also be implemented in a language like JavaScript, this will include a discussion of the trade offs between purity and performance.

:The aim of this talk is to prepare participants to both implement functional techniques in everyday programming, as well as start exploring the topic more academically. Even if you never plan on coding in a purely functional style this workshop will give you an understanding of topics that should improve your programming in other languages with functional features such as Ruby, Python, and C#. At the very least after this workshop you can go to the bar and throw around words like “lambda function”, “closure” and “currying” with confidence!
* Duration: half-day
* Speaker Bio: Will Kurt is the Applications Development Librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is also working on a master’s in Computer Science. He has spoken at several library conferences including Computers in Libraries and Internet Librarian on topics including the Microsoft Surface and Visualizing Information.
* Contact: Will Kurt (wkurt at unr.edu)

=== Running cloud Servers ===
*Desription: In this pre-conference we will work with the Amazon EC2, S3, and EBS platforms to launch, configure and deploy cloud-based servers. The workshop will include a series of short hands-on tutorials designed to take you from complete novice to semi-skilled cloud server administrator. the tutorials include: 1)short overview of Amazon cloud services and how they are used 2)Amazon registration, 3)Launching, configuring and securing your first instance, 4)Installing a service (Vufind) and 5)Backing up in the cloud - Backup routines and server images.
*Duration: half-day
*Speaker Bio: Erik Mitchell is the Assistant Director for Technology Services at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Over the past year he and his team have focused on using cloud-based services to serve the IT needs of the ZSR library. More information about the work done on this project can be found at [http://zsr.wfu.edu/litacloud], [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2510]
*Contact: mitcheet at wfu dot edu

=== Creating a new JHOVE2 Format Module===

Description: JHOVE2 is a Java framework and application for format-aware characterization of files, byte streams within files, and file containers or other file aggregations. JHOVE2 examines a digital source unit and extracts feature information about that source unit for purposes of classification, analysis, and use.

JHOVE2 is a significant re-engineering of its JHOVE ([http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/ http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/]) predecessor, with a highly modular structure, intended to facilitate the rapid creation of new characterization modules for many formats that can easily be plugged into the JHOVE2 framework. The initial JHOVE2 distribution includes modules for UTF-8, SGML, Shapefile, TIFF, WAV, XML, and ICC color profiles, with ZIP, PDF and JPEG-2000 modules expected to be deployed in the next few months. Developers at the Wegener Institute ([http://www.awi-potsdam.de http://www.awi-potsdam.de] ) have already created new modules for netCDF and GRIB. Developers at the French National Library (La Bibliothèque nationale de France [http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html]) are currently working on GZIP and ARC modules.

This session will provide an overview of the JHOVE2 processing module and plug-in architecture, and will walk through the steps of creating a new format module.

For more information, visit http://jhove2.org.

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Sheila Morrissey is a member of the JHOVE2 development team and is Senior Research Developer at Portico ([http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/ http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/])

Contact: Sheila Morrissey <sheila dot morrissey at ithaka dot org>

==Half Day Afternoon==

=== Using JHOVE2 for Policy Assessment of Files ===

Description: JHOVE2 is a Java framework and application for format-aware characterization of files, bytestreams within files, and file containers or other file aggregatations. JHOVE2 examine a digital source unit and extracts feature information about that source unit for purposes of classification, analysis, and use.

In addition to detailed output of the features of a format instance, JHOVE2 can provide summary determination of the validity of an item (its conformance to the normative syntactic and semantic requirements defined by an authoritative specification) and can be used for assessing the level of acceptability of a digital object for a specific purpose on the basis of locally-defined policy rules. The latter is one of the significant enhancements of JHOVE2 over its predecessor.

This session will provide some examples of the structure of JHOVE2 format modules, the outputs produced by those modules, and the configuration of the JHOVE2 assessment module so that it can be used to perform rule-based analysis of the reportable properties previously generated during characterization of a source unit.

For more information, visit [http://jhove2.org http://jhove2.org].

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Richard Anderson is a member of the JHOVE2 develpment team and a Software Engineer with the Digital Library Systems and Services unit of Stanford University

Contact: Richard Anderson <rnanders at stanford dot edu>

=== Publishing Historic Newspapers with NDNP tools ===

* An in-depth session on publishing and working with historic newspaper content made available through the US National Digital Newspaper Program. The software behind the LC-hosted site at [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ chroniclingamerica.loc.gov] (python/django/mysql/solr) is available under a free/libre/open source license at [http://sourceforge.net/projects/loc-ndnp/ sourceforge]. This session will include an introduction to the program and working with the software; discussion of adding features such as linking between ChromAm at LC and other institutions publishing the same newspaper content; creating structure and submission for user edited OCR corrections; and article level viewing. This event is open to everyone - non-NDNP participants are invited to join us and learn how to work with this content and help consider how to improve the software. The schedule will include ample time for technical discussion and hacking on the software itself.

* Duration: half-day
* Contact: Karen Estlund, University of Oregon Libraries; Dan Chudnov, Library of Congress

=== VIVO Boot Camp===

Description: VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell University. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information and includes options for RDF linked data distribution.

This boot camp will be run by members of the NIH/NCRR funded VIVO network and will focus on four components including, an overview of what VIVO is and how it can help researchers, an installation walk-through, how VIVO works (its ontology, visualization functionality, and user interface), and future directions for the project (e.g. profile data re-use in CMSs such as Drupal and Joomla!, federated search, etc.).

For more information, visit [http://vivoweb.org http://vivoweb.org].

Duration: half-day

Speakers:
*Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College
*Nick Cappadona, Cornell University
*Ying Ding, Indiana University
*Bryan Keese, Indiana University
*Micah Linnemeier, Indiana University
*Ryan Cobine, Indiana University

Contact: Ryan Cobine <rcobine AT indiana DOT edu>

=== Islandora Repository System ===

Description: The Islandora project (islandora.ca) is growing, with new functionality provided by Solr integration and funding to support the growth of this OS project beyond our library borders. Islandora provides integration between Fedora and Drupal, with custom solution packs to address the needs of multiple data types. This session will review the project's development and current features, as well as providing guidance for basic installation and configuration.

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Mark Leggott is the founder of the Islandora project. As the UL for the University of Prince Edward Island, and the projects major architect. He has spoken at a number of conferences, and is the founder of a new SaSS company providing services around Islandora software.

'''Update 1/12''': Paul Pound will co-lead; Kirsta Stapelfeldt will not attend.

Contact: Kirsta Stapelfeldt (kstapelfeldt AT upei.ca)

=== Code4Lib Preconference Unconference===

* Description: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference "Wikipedia entry for unconference"] will give you a good idea what to expect. An "unconference" is "a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose." These unconferences came up from the hacker world (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcamp "BarCamp"]) as a way to avoid high conference fees and sponsored presentations. Unconferences are not spectactor events, nor are they places to "be seen." Participants are involved from the schedule creation to the wrap-up session, and actively present, discuss, and collaborate with fellow participants. In recent years, [http://thatcamp.org/ "THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp)"] has become a popular incarnation of the *camp gathering. In general, check your papers at the door, and just be ready to talk about the work you’re doing, the work you want to do, how you might collaborate with others. Think of it like a conference entirely made up of [[2011_Breakout_Sessions | breakout sessions]], but with some unifying theme. Or not. It depends on you. Now, how will we run an unconference in three hours and in one room? Carefully. I propose a rough schedule of 30 minutes for discussion-of-topics, then three 45-minute bursts of discussions, followed by 15 minutes of wrap-up. As this is all user-generated, it's all up for change in that first 30 minutes. We can have as many concurrent bursts-of-discussion as will fit in the one room, and that would also allow greater flexibility for wandering between groups. This is actually a compressed micro preconference unconference, that should--if all goes according to plan--produce a really fun, interesting, collaborative time, as well as a model that could be taken back to our own workplaces. '''Please''' contact the organizer with questions as well as any ideas for conversations you might want to have; will update this entry accordingly.

* Duration: half-day

* Organizer / Contact: Julie Meloni (jcmeloni AT gmail dot com)

'''THE SCHEDULE'''
coming soon

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PC0vHWCJEA8v8VE0Z_-W-dLPaiYYYwKFDT1JIyCrP9M/edit?hl=en | Web Services Google Doc]

[[Category:Code4Lib2011]]

C4L2011 social activities

2011-01-16T19:15:25Z

Jcmeloni:

'''This page is under development'''

==Code4Lib 2011 social activities ==

==Local events==

* [https://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence/display/EVENTS/Code4Lib+2011+Proposal Original Proposal (suggests some nearby events)]
* February 5: [http://music.indiana.edu/events/?e=9221 New Music Ensemble] at Auer Hall, 8 p.m, with [http://www.parnasmusic.com/Index.html duo parnas] performing.
* February 7: [http://music.indiana.edu/events/?e=9224 Jazz Ensemble] at Musical Arts Center, 8 p.m.
* February 8: [http://www.theroommovie.com/screeningspop.html Tommy Wiseau's Love Is Blind Tour] (showing of "[[wikipedia:The Room (film)|The Room]]" w/ Q&A!)
* February 8: [http://music.indiana.edu/events/share.php?e=9225 IU Wind Ensemble] at Musical Arts Center - FREE!
* February 9: [http://music.indiana.edu/events/share.php?e=9226 IU University Orchestra] at Musical Arts Center - FREE!
* February 8 and 9: [http://www.iuauditorium.com/site/show-fiddler.html Fiddler on the Roof] at the IU Auditorium - $38-60
* February 9: [http://dylanettinger.bandcamp.com/ Dylan Ettinger]/[http://www.myspace.com/kamkama Kam Kama] at The Bishop
* February 10: Bob Marley's band [http://wailers.com/ Legendary Wailers] at [http://www.thebluebird.ws/ Bluebird Nightclub] - $20
* February 10: Amy Schumer at [http://www.comedyattic.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=84:amy-schumer&Itemid=3 The Comedy Attic] - $13

Things to see:
* Indiana University Art Museum: [http://www.iub.edu/~iuam/section.php?navSection=galleries New in the Galleries]
* Indiana University SoFA Gallery: [http://www.indiana.edu/~sofa/exhibitions/iu-school-of-fine-arts-student-shows-1/ MFA Painting, Metals, Graphic Design, Ceramics, and Textiles]

==Planned events==

Plan one if you like! Either on your own or you can [[2011 committees_sign-up_page|join the social activities committee]].

=== Newcomer Dinner ===
First time at code4lib? Join fellow c4l newbies and veterans for an evening of food, socializing, and stimulating discussions about the many uses of <strike>bacon</strike> dongles.

Code4Lib veterans, you're invited too. Join us in welcoming the newcomers!

'''Plans'''
* When: Monday evening (2/7)
* Time: 6 PM (ish)
* Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:yoosebj@muohio.edu Becky Yoose]

''Guidelines:''
*Max of '''6''' per location
**Please, no waitlisting :(
*ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans in each group
**New folks - n
**c4l vets - v
*One leader needed for each location (declare yourself! - '''Vets are highly encouraged to lead the group :)''')
**Leader duties
***Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 6 rowdy library coders
***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)

'''Restaurants'''

'''West Side of Campus (towards downtown)'''

'''Indiana Avenue''', across street from campus (5-10 minute walk)

[http://www.buffalouies.com/home.html Buffa Louie's] (Wings/Subs/Sandwiches) - Gables location on Indiana Avenue is historic site

'''4th St. between IMU and downtown square''' (10-15 minute walk)

[http://www.anyetsangs.com/ Anyetsang's Little Tibet] (Tibetan/Thai/Indian)
*Dot Porter (leader) - n
*Jason Ronallo - n
*Ben Anderson - n
*Bill Dueber - v
*Julie Meloni - n

[http://www.siamhousebloomington.com/ Siam House] (Thai)
*Becky Yoose (leader) - v
*Margaret Heller - n
*Bohyun Kim - n

Puccini's La Dolce Vita (Italian)

'''Kirkwood Ave. (5th St) between IMU and downtown square''' (10-15 minute walk)

[http://www.nicksenglishhut.com/ Nick's English Hut] (American Pub) - NOTE: web site plays IU fight song

[http://www.cafepizzaria.com/ Cafe Pizzaria] (Pizza)

[http://www.falafelsonline.com/Falafels/www.FalafelsOnline.com.html Falafels] (Middle Eastern)

[http://www.finchsbrasserie.com/ Finch's] (Gastropub-ish)
* Cary Gordon (leader) - v
* Michael Doran - v
* Tim Daniels - n

[http://www.farm-bloomington.com/ Farm] (Local/Seasonal)

[http://www.the-uptown.com/nonflash.html Michael's Uptown Cafe] (Cajun/Creole/American)
*Julie Hardesty (leader) - n
*Jean Rainwater - v
*D Ruth Bavousett - n
* Theodor T - n

[http://www.thetrojanhorse.com/ Trojan Horse] (Greek)

Shanti (Indian, Vegetarian options)

'''6th St. between IMU and downtown square''' (10-15 minute walk)

[http://www.runciblespoonrestaurant.com/ Runcible Spoon] (Variety, Vegetarian/Vegan options)

'''Grant St. between 3rd St. and 6th St.''', about halfway between IMU and downtown square (10-15 minute walk)

[http://cafedjango.us/ Cafe Django] (Indian, Thai, Vegetarian options)
* Maccabee Levine (leader) - v
* Andrew Darby - v
* Michael Slone - n

[http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/Snow_Lion Snow Lion] (Tibetan, Indian, Vegetarian options)

'''Lincoln St. between 3rd St. and 6th St.''', about halfway between IMU and downtown square (15-20 minute walk)

[http://www.esanthairestaurant.com/ Esan Thai] (Thai, Vegetarian options)

'''Downtown Square''' (20-25 minute walk)

[http://uplandbeer.com/ Upland Brewing] (Microbrewery)
* THE ARCHITECT'S GROUP
** Mike Giarlo (leader) - v
** Jay Luker (wall dodger) - v
** Benoit Thiell (french tickler) - n
** Dan Suchy (designated non-driver) - v
** Matt Critchlow (lupulin addict) - n
** Esme Cowles (designated non-walker) -v
* THE ARCHIVIST'S GROUP
** Mark Matienzo (leader) - v
** Hillel Arnold (intern) - n
** Mark Custer (title tk) - n
** Patrick Force (TBD) - n

[http://www.irishlion.com/ Irish Lion] (Irish Pub)

[http://www.crazyhorseindiana.com/ Crazy Horse] (American)
* Joel Richard (leader, usurped) - v
* Genevieve Francis - n
* Ben Shum - n
* Francis Kayiwa - (former leader) n

[http://www.grazieitalianeatery.com/Welcome.html Grazie] (Italian)

[http://www.samirasrestaurant.com/ Samira] (Afghanistan cuisine)
* Linda Ballinger (hoping for more to choose this one, leader till then?) - n

[http://www.opietaylors.com/welcome.html Opie Taylors] (American)

[http://www.malibugrill.net/ Malibu Grill] (California)

[http://www.littlezagreb.com/ Janko's Little Zagreb] (Steakhouse)

[http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/El_Norteño El Norteño] (Mexican)

[http://www.maxsplace.info/ Max's Place] (Pizza)

[http://www.restauranttallent.com/ Tallent] (Local/Seasonal)

Roots on the Square (Vegan/Vegetarian)

'''East Side of Campus (away from downtown)'''

'''10th St., east of Wells Library''' (10-15 minute walk)

[http://www.bbcbloomington.com/ Lennie's Bar & Grill] (Pizza/American)

'''3rd St., east of Music School''' (10-15 minute walk)

[http://www.motherbearspizza.com/index2.html Mother Bear's Pizza] (Pizza)

[http://www.macgyros.com/ The MAC] (Mediterranean)

[http://www.yelp.com/biz/red-chopsticks-bloomington Red Chopsticks] (Sushi/Asian Fusion)

Cafe Ami/Domo (Japanese/Korean)

[[Category: Code4Lib2011]]

2011 Preconference Proposals

2010-12-09T16:56:03Z

Jcmeloni: /* Code4Lib Preconference Unconference */

= Proposals for 2011 Code4LibCon Preconferences =

Proposals will close Friday November 19 so we can finalize the list and add them to registration!

We'll have space for up to 3 full-day pre-conferences and 3-6 half-day pre-conferences.

'''Please include a "Contact/Responsible Individual" name and email address so we know who is willing to put on the proposed precon.'''

==Full Day==

=== CURATEcamp Hackfest ===
* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in digital curation? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3 Access 2010 Hackfest]. I propose a full-day hackfest with a focus on the domains of digital curation, preservation, and repositories -- think stuff like CDL's microservices, Hydra, Fedora, etc. Here's how it works, roughly: we assemble in the morning and do some whiteboarding, mostly to gauge folks' interests and jot down project ideas; then we separate into teams and hack on stuff for the rest of the day and present our progress at the end. Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable! (Wiki space will be made in advance of the hackfest so participants may begin kicking around ideas.)
* Duration: full-day
* Speaker Bio: Facilitators of the CURATEcamp Hackfest will be:
** Shaun Ellis - Digital Library Collections Interface Developer, Princeton University Library
** Jason Fowler - Programmer Analyst, UBC Library Systems
* Contact: Mike Giarlo (michael at psu.edu)

==Half Day Morning==

=== What's New In Solr ===
* Description: The library world is fired up about Solr. Practically every next-gen catalog is using it (via Blacklight, VuFind, or other technologies). Solr has continued improving in some dramatic ways, including geospatial support, field collapsing/grouping, extended dismax query parsing, pivot/grid/matrix/tree faceting, autosuggest, and more. This session will cover all of these new features, showcasing live examples of them all, including anything new that is implemented prior to the conference.
* Duration: half-day
* Speaker Bio: Erik has spoken at several code4lib conferences (Keynoted Athens '07 along with the infamous pioneering Solr preconference, presented at Providence '09, and pre-conferenced Asheville '10). Erik co-authored "Lucene in Action", and he's a Lucene and Solr committer. His library world claims to fame are founding and naming Blacklight, original developer on Collex and the Rossetti Archive search.
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidimagination.com)

=== Intro to Functional Programming with JavaScript (and a little Haskell) ===
* Description: Functional programming is a topic that is becoming increasingly important for programmers to be aware of. Unfortunately it also has the reputation of being an area of programming that is particularly difficult and academic. Languages like Haskell, while being very powerful, certainly live up to this reputation. However many of the essential features of functional programming can be explored through a language as simple and commonplace as JavaScript.

:This preconference talk will cover what makes a language ‘functional’ and the usage and implementation of essential features of functional programming: first-class functions, lambda functions, higher order functions, closures, and function currying. It will show how many of the powerful abstractions in a language like Haskell can also be implemented in a language like JavaScript, this will include a discussion of the trade offs between purity and performance.

:The aim of this talk is to prepare participants to both implement functional techniques in everyday programming, as well as start exploring the topic more academically. Even if you never plan on coding in a purely functional style this workshop will give you an understanding of topics that should improve your programming in other languages with functional features such as Ruby, Python, and C#. At the very least after this workshop you can go to the bar and throw around words like “lambda function”, “closure” and “currying” with confidence!
* Duration: half-day
* Speaker Bio: Will Kurt is the Applications Development Librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is also working on a master’s in Computer Science. He has spoken at several library conferences including Computers in Libraries and Internet Librarian on topics including the Microsoft Surface and Visualizing Information.
* Contact: Will Kurt (wkurt at unr.edu)

=== Running cloud Servers ===
*Desription: In this pre-conference we will work with the Amazon EC2, S3, and EBS platforms to launch, configure and deploy cloud-based servers. The workshop will include a series of short hands-on tutorials designed to take you from complete novice to semi-skilled cloud server administrator. the tutorials include: 1)short overview of Amazon cloud services and how they are used 2)Amazon registration, 3)Launching, configuring and securing your first instance, 4)Installing a service (Vufind) and 5)Backing up in the cloud - Backup routines and server images.
*Duration: half-day
*Speaker Bio: Erik Mitchell is the Assistant Director for Technology Services at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Over the past year he and his team have focused on using cloud-based services to serve the IT needs of the ZSR library. More information about the work done on this project can be found at [http://zsr.wfu.edu/litacloud], [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2510]
*Contact: mitcheet at wfu dot edu

=== Creating a new JHOVE2 Format Module===

Description: JHOVE2 is a Java framework and application for format-aware characterization of files, byte streams within files, and file containers or other file aggregations. JHOVE2 examines a digital source unit and extracts feature information about that source unit for purposes of classification, analysis, and use.

JHOVE2 is a significant re-engineering of its JHOVE ([http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/ http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/]) predecessor, with a highly modular structure, intended to facilitate the rapid creation of new characterization modules for many formats that can easily be plugged into the JHOVE2 framework. The initial JHOVE2 distribution includes modules for UTF-8, SGML, Shapefile, TIFF, WAV, XML, and ICC color profiles, with ZIP, PDF and JPEG-2000 modules expected to be deployed in the next few months. Developers at the Wegener Institute ([http://www.awi-potsdam.de http://www.awi-potsdam.de] ) have already created new modules for netCDF and GRIB. Developers at the French National Library (La Bibliothèque nationale de France [http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html]) are currently working on GZIP and ARC modules.

This session will provide an overview of the JHOVE2 processing module and plug-in architecture, and will walk through the steps of creating a new format module.

For more information, visit http://jhove2.org.

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Sheila Morrissey is a member of the JHOVE2 development team and is Senior Research Developer at Portico ([http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/ http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/])

Contact: Sheila Morrissey <sheila dot morrissey at ithaka dot org>

==Half Day Afternoon==

=== Using JHOVE2 for Policy Assessment of Files ===

Description: JHOVE2 is a Java framework and application for format-aware characterization of files, bytestreams within files, and file containers or other file aggregatations. JHOVE2 examine a digital source unit and extracts feature information about that source unit for purposes of classification, analysis, and use.

In addition to detailed output of the features of a format instance, JHOVE2 can provide summary determination of the validity of an item (its conformance to the normative syntactic and semantic requirements defined by an authoritative specification) and can be used for assessing the level of acceptability of a digital object for a specific purpose on the basis of locally-defined policy rules. The latter is one of the significant enhancements of JHOVE2 over its predecessor.

This session will provide some examples of the structure of JHOVE2 format modules, the outputs produced by those modules, and the configuration of the JHOVE2 assessment module so that it can be used to perform rule-based analysis of the reportable properties previously generated during characterization of a source unit.

For more information, visit [http://jhove2.org http://jhove2.org].

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Richard Anderson is a member of the JHOVE2 develpment team and a Software Engineer with the Digital Library Systems and Services unit of Stanford University

Contact: Richard Anderson <rnanders at stanford dot edu>

=== Publishing Historic Newspapers with NDNP tools ===

* An in-depth session on publishing and working with historic newspaper content made available through the US National Digital Newspaper Program. The software behind the LC-hosted site at [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ chroniclingamerica.loc.gov] (python/django/mysql/solr) is available under a free/libre/open source license at [http://sourceforge.net/projects/loc-ndnp/ sourceforge]. This session will include an introduction to the program and working with the software; discussion of adding features such as linking between ChromAm at LC and other institutions publishing the same newspaper content; creating structure and submission for user edited OCR corrections; and article level viewing. This event is open to everyone - non-NDNP participants are invited to join us and learn how to work with this content and help consider how to improve the software. The schedule will include ample time for technical discussion and hacking on the software itself.

* Duration: half-day
* Contact: Karen Estlund, University of Oregon Libraries; Dan Chudnov, Library of Congress

=== VIVO BootCamp===

Description: VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell University. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information and includes options for RDF linked data distribution.

This bootcamp will be run by members of the NIH/NCRR funded VIVO network and will focus on four components including, a VIVO installation walk-through, VIVO faculty profile data re-use (web services for linked data queries to populate content management and profile systems such as Drupal and Joomla!), the VIVO core ontology, and a separate discussion session on the needs libraries have for faculty expertise systems and their value for institutional repositories.

For more information, visit [http://vivoweb.org http://vivoweb.org].

Duration: half-day

Speakers:
*Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College
*Christopher Case, University of Florida
*Alex Rockwell, University of Florida
*Margeaux Johnson, University of Florida
*Ying Ding, Indiana University
*Ryan Cobine, Indiana University
*Bryan Keese, Indiana University

Contact: Ryan Cobine <rcobine AT indiana DOT edu>

=== Islandora Repository System ===

Description: The Islandora project (islandora.ca) is growing, with new functionality provided by Solr integration and funding to support the growth of this OS project beyond our library borders. Islandora provides integration between Fedora and Drupal, with custom solution packs to address the needs of multiple data types. This session will review the project's development and current features, as well as providing guidance for basic installation and configuration.

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Mark Leggott begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting is the founder of the Islandora project. As the UL for the University of Prince Edward Island, and the projects major architect. He has spoken at a number of conferences, and is the founder of a new SaSS company providing services around Islandora software.

Contact: Kirsta Stapelfeldt (kstapelfeldt AT upei.ca)

=== Code4Lib Preconference Unconference===

* Description: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference "Wikipedia entry for unconference"] will give you a good idea what to expect. An "unconference" is "a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose." These unconferences came up from the hacker world (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcamp "BarCamp"]) as a way to avoid high conference fees and sponsored presentations. Unconferences are not spectactor events, nor are they places to "be seen." Participants are involved from the schedule creation to the wrap-up session, and actively present, discuss, and collaborate with fellow participants. In recent years, [http://thatcamp.org/ "THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp)"] has become a popular incarnation of the *camp gathering. In general, check your papers at the door, and just be ready to talk about the work you’re doing, the work you want to do, how you might collaborate with others. Think of it like a conference entirely made up of [[2011_Breakout_Sessions | breakout sessions]], but with some unifying theme. Or not. It depends on you. Now, how will we run an unconference in three hours and in one room? Carefully. I propose a rough schedule of 30 minutes for discussion-of-topics, then three 45-minute bursts of discussions, followed by 15 minutes of wrap-up. As this is all user-generated, it's all up for change in that first 30 minutes. We can have as many concurrent bursts-of-discussion as will fit in the one room, and that would also allow greater flexibility for wandering between groups. This is actually a compressed micro preconference unconference, that should--if all goes according to plan--produce a really fun, interesting, collaborative time, as well as a model that could be taken back to our own workplaces. '''Please''' contact the organizer with questions as well as any ideas for conversations you might want to have; will update this entry accordingly.

* Duration: half-day

* Organizer / Contact: Julie Meloni (jcmeloni AT gmail dot com)

[[Category:Code4Lib2011]]

2011 Preconference Proposals

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= Proposals for 2011 Code4LibCon Preconferences =

Proposals will close Friday November 19 so we can finalize the list and add them to registration!

We'll have space for up to 3 full-day pre-conferences and 3-6 half-day pre-conferences.

'''Please include a "Contact/Responsible Individual" name and email address so we know who is willing to put on the proposed precon.'''

==Full Day==

=== CURATEcamp Hackfest ===
* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in digital curation? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3 Access 2010 Hackfest]. I propose a full-day hackfest with a focus on the domains of digital curation, preservation, and repositories -- think stuff like CDL's microservices, Hydra, Fedora, etc. Here's how it works, roughly: we assemble in the morning and do some whiteboarding, mostly to gauge folks' interests and jot down project ideas; then we separate into teams and hack on stuff for the rest of the day and present our progress at the end. Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable! (Wiki space will be made in advance of the hackfest so participants may begin kicking around ideas.)
* Duration: full-day
* Speaker Bio: Facilitators of the CURATEcamp Hackfest will be:
** Shaun Ellis - Digital Library Collections Interface Developer, Princeton University Library
** Jason Fowler - Programmer Analyst, UBC Library Systems
* Contact: Mike Giarlo (michael at psu.edu)

==Half Day Morning==

=== What's New In Solr ===
* Description: The library world is fired up about Solr. Practically every next-gen catalog is using it (via Blacklight, VuFind, or other technologies). Solr has continued improving in some dramatic ways, including geospatial support, field collapsing/grouping, extended dismax query parsing, pivot/grid/matrix/tree faceting, autosuggest, and more. This session will cover all of these new features, showcasing live examples of them all, including anything new that is implemented prior to the conference.
* Duration: half-day
* Speaker Bio: Erik has spoken at several code4lib conferences (Keynoted Athens '07 along with the infamous pioneering Solr preconference, presented at Providence '09, and pre-conferenced Asheville '10). Erik co-authored "Lucene in Action", and he's a Lucene and Solr committer. His library world claims to fame are founding and naming Blacklight, original developer on Collex and the Rossetti Archive search.
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidimagination.com)

=== Intro to Functional Programming with JavaScript (and a little Haskell) ===
* Description: Functional programming is a topic that is becoming increasingly important for programmers to be aware of. Unfortunately it also has the reputation of being an area of programming that is particularly difficult and academic. Languages like Haskell, while being very powerful, certainly live up to this reputation. However many of the essential features of functional programming can be explored through a language as simple and commonplace as JavaScript.

:This preconference talk will cover what makes a language ‘functional’ and the usage and implementation of essential features of functional programming: first-class functions, lambda functions, higher order functions, closures, and function currying. It will show how many of the powerful abstractions in a language like Haskell can also be implemented in a language like JavaScript, this will include a discussion of the trade offs between purity and performance.

:The aim of this talk is to prepare participants to both implement functional techniques in everyday programming, as well as start exploring the topic more academically. Even if you never plan on coding in a purely functional style this workshop will give you an understanding of topics that should improve your programming in other languages with functional features such as Ruby, Python, and C#. At the very least after this workshop you can go to the bar and throw around words like “lambda function”, “closure” and “currying” with confidence!
* Duration: half-day
* Speaker Bio: Will Kurt is the Applications Development Librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is also working on a master’s in Computer Science. He has spoken at several library conferences including Computers in Libraries and Internet Librarian on topics including the Microsoft Surface and Visualizing Information.
* Contact: Will Kurt (wkurt at unr.edu)

=== Running cloud Servers ===
*Desription: In this pre-conference we will work with the Amazon EC2, S3, and EBS platforms to launch, configure and deploy cloud-based servers. The workshop will include a series of short hands-on tutorials designed to take you from complete novice to semi-skilled cloud server administrator. the tutorials include: 1)short overview of Amazon cloud services and how they are used 2)Amazon registration, 3)Launching, configuring and securing your first instance, 4)Installing a service (Vufind) and 5)Backing up in the cloud - Backup routines and server images.
*Duration: half-day
*Speaker Bio: Erik Mitchell is the Assistant Director for Technology Services at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Over the past year he and his team have focused on using cloud-based services to serve the IT needs of the ZSR library. More information about the work done on this project can be found at [http://zsr.wfu.edu/litacloud], [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2510]
*Contact: mitcheet at wfu dot edu

=== Creating a new JHOVE2 Format Module===

Description: JHOVE2 is a Java framework and application for format-aware characterization of files, byte streams within files, and file containers or other file aggregations. JHOVE2 examines a digital source unit and extracts feature information about that source unit for purposes of classification, analysis, and use.

JHOVE2 is a significant re-engineering of its JHOVE ([http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/ http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/]) predecessor, with a highly modular structure, intended to facilitate the rapid creation of new characterization modules for many formats that can easily be plugged into the JHOVE2 framework. The initial JHOVE2 distribution includes modules for UTF-8, SGML, Shapefile, TIFF, WAV, XML, and ICC color profiles, with ZIP, PDF and JPEG-2000 modules expected to be deployed in the next few months. Developers at the Wegener Institute ([http://www.awi-potsdam.de http://www.awi-potsdam.de] ) have already created new modules for netCDF and GRIB. Developers at the French National Library (La Bibliothèque nationale de France [http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html]) are currently working on GZIP and ARC modules.

This session will provide an overview of the JHOVE2 processing module and plug-in architecture, and will walk through the steps of creating a new format module.

For more information, visit http://jhove2.org.

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Sheila Morrissey is a member of the JHOVE2 development team and is Senior Research Developer at Portico ([http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/ http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/])

Contact: Sheila Morrissey <sheila dot morrissey at ithaka dot org>

==Half Day Afternoon==

=== Using JHOVE2 for Policy Assessment of Files ===

Description: JHOVE2 is a Java framework and application for format-aware characterization of files, bytestreams within files, and file containers or other file aggregatations. JHOVE2 examine a digital source unit and extracts feature information about that source unit for purposes of classification, analysis, and use.

In addition to detailed output of the features of a format instance, JHOVE2 can provide summary determination of the validity of an item (its conformance to the normative syntactic and semantic requirements defined by an authoritative specification) and can be used for assessing the level of acceptability of a digital object for a specific purpose on the basis of locally-defined policy rules. The latter is one of the significant enhancements of JHOVE2 over its predecessor.

This session will provide some examples of the structure of JHOVE2 format modules, the outputs produced by those modules, and the configuration of the JHOVE2 assessment module so that it can be used to perform rule-based analysis of the reportable properties previously generated during characterization of a source unit.

For more information, visit [http://jhove2.org http://jhove2.org].

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Richard Anderson is a member of the JHOVE2 develpment team and a Software Engineer with the Digital Library Systems and Services unit of Stanford University

Contact: Richard Anderson <rnanders at stanford dot edu>

=== Publishing Historic Newspapers with NDNP tools ===

* An in-depth session on publishing and working with historic newspaper content made available through the US National Digital Newspaper Program. The software behind the LC-hosted site at [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ chroniclingamerica.loc.gov] (python/django/mysql/solr) is available under a free/libre/open source license at [http://sourceforge.net/projects/loc-ndnp/ sourceforge]. This session will include an introduction to the program and working with the software; discussion of adding features such as linking between ChromAm at LC and other institutions publishing the same newspaper content; creating structure and submission for user edited OCR corrections; and article level viewing. This event is open to everyone - non-NDNP participants are invited to join us and learn how to work with this content and help consider how to improve the software. The schedule will include ample time for technical discussion and hacking on the software itself.

* Duration: half-day
* Contact: Karen Estlund, University of Oregon Libraries; Dan Chudnov, Library of Congress

=== VIVO BootCamp===

Description: VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell University. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information and includes options for RDF linked data distribution.

This bootcamp will be run by members of the NIH/NCRR funded VIVO network and will focus on four components including, a VIVO installation walk-through, VIVO faculty profile data re-use (web services for linked data queries to populate content management and profile systems such as Drupal and Joomla!), the VIVO core ontology, and a separate discussion session on the needs libraries have for faculty expertise systems and their value for institutional repositories.

For more information, visit [http://vivoweb.org http://vivoweb.org].

Duration: half-day

Speakers:
*Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College
*Christopher Case, University of Florida
*Alex Rockwell, University of Florida
*Margeaux Johnson, University of Florida
*Ying Ding, Indiana University
*Ryan Cobine, Indiana University
*Bryan Keese, Indiana University

Contact: Ryan Cobine <rcobine AT indiana DOT edu>

=== Islandora Repository System ===

Description: The Islandora project (islandora.ca) is growing, with new functionality provided by Solr integration and funding to support the growth of this OS project beyond our library borders. Islandora provides integration between Fedora and Drupal, with custom solution packs to address the needs of multiple data types. This session will review the project's development and current features, as well as providing guidance for basic installation and configuration.

Duration: half-day

Speaker Bio: Mark Leggott begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting is the founder of the Islandora project. As the UL for the University of Prince Edward Island, and the projects major architect. He has spoken at a number of conferences, and is the founder of a new SaSS company providing services around Islandora software.

Contact: Kirsta Stapelfeldt (kstapelfeldt AT upei.ca)

=== Code4Lib Preconference Unconference===

* Description: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference "Wikipedia entry for unconference"] will give you a good idea what to expect. An "unconference" is "a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose." These unconferences came up from the hacker world (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcamp "BarCamp"]) as a way to avoid high conference fees and sponsored presentations. Unconferences are not spectactor events, nor are they places to "be seen." Participants are involved from the schedule creation to the wrap-up session, and actively present, discuss, and collaborate with fellow participants. In recent years, [http://thatcamp.org/ "THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp)"] has become a popular incarnation of the *camp gathering. In general, check your papers at the door, and just be ready to talk about the work you’re doing, the work you want to do, how you might collaborate with others. Think of it like a conference entirely made up of [[2011_Breakout_Sessions | breakout sessions]], but with some unifying theme. Or not. It depends on you. Now, how will we run an unconference in three hours and in one room? Carefully. I propose a rough schedule of 30 minutes for discussion-of-topics, then three 45-minute bursts of discussions, followed by 15 minutes of wrap-up. As this is all user-generated, it's all up for change in that first 30 minutes. We can have as many concurrent bursts-of-discussion as will fit in the one room, and that would also allow greater flexibility for wandering between groups. This is actually a compressed micro preconference unconference, that should--if all goes according to plan--produce a really fun, interesting, collaborative time, as well as a model that could be taken back to our own workplaces. '''Please''' contact the organizer with questions as well as any ideas for conversations you might want to have; will update this entry accordingly.

* Duration: half-day

* Organizer / Contact: Julie Meloni (jcmeloni AT gmail dot com)

[[Category:Code4Lib2011]]